Job Description
Engineering Manager -Inventory Platform
We seek an Engineering Manager to help deliver and guide the growth of an Inventory platform designed to enable the end-users to execute Inventory
workflows and route the inventory transactions to the destined systems in an easily traceable, self-healing, effective, secure and cost-effective manner.
You will lead a talented group of engineers within the Inventory Platform organization in this role. You will set engineering and operational excellence
standard for your team. You will also work closely with product management, program management, and partnering teams to align technical roadmaps
with business requirements. You will provide leadership to your team to manage inventory effectively and support Nordstrom's retail and e-commerce
growth.
You are a highly technical leader with a bias towards action and the ability to drive consensus. You are comfortable discussing software architecture and
leveraging data to influence decisions. You have a proven understanding of the fundamentals of agile software engineering, deep knowledge of the
software development life-cycle, and experience to draw from that helps you build towards a future state while making smart trade-offs to meet current
objectives. You will raise the bar for your team, allowing them to deliver their best work. You will also help each team member grow, identifying teachable
moments, training, and work supporting their career goals. You are a creative problem solver, and you know how to measure and improve your products
and teams.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for architecture and solution level design at the team level
• Influence quality standards and understand, identify, and measure across an entire solution
• Assist in enhancing department vision and strategies to support company goals and receive guidance from more senior leaders
• Create training opportunities for the team to learn the latest technologies and methodologies
• Ensure team has the tools, resources, and information they need to be successful
• Hire capable and motivated talent/teams that can deliver swiftly and predictably, adjusting in an agile fashion to deliver solutions aligned with
• business needs
• Enhance team ability to learn, avoid duplication and teach engineering standards and best practices?
• Contribute to architecture, coding, test plans, project plans, deployment planning, and operations to drive excellence and lead the team towards
• its goals
• Employ continuous improvement methodologies across own group (e.g., quantify impacts to the customer first, eliminate waste, increase
• productivity, iterate quickly, shorten the feedback loop, create relevant KPIs)

QUALIFICATIONS:

• B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science or comparable experience
• 5+ years of hands-on professional experience in owning and operating business-critical systems
• Experience (2+ years) managing/leading a team of junior and senior engineers to achieve impactful results
• Deep experience in development, are comfortable working in code and skilled at explaining and advocating for new technologies and solutions
• Profound care for your people and the desire to help those who want to help themselves
• Demonstrable ability to establish a vision, define a roadmap, and execute on it
• Pragmatism. You can prioritize, simplify, and make a path toward results
• Proactive mindset. You seek the best solution for the company and customer and take action without being directed
• The capability to truly listen to our customers and partners, internalize their needs, and develop simple and elegant solutions that they can't live
• without
• A bias towards action guided by an evidence-based decision-making mindset
• Comprehensive knowledge of back-end technology ? Java, Python, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes, RESTful architecture, microservices, and Database
• RDBMS (preferably PostgreSQL, Oracle)
• Experience with React front end tech stack is a plus
• Experience with Oracle Retail Merchandising Applications (RMS, RIB, SIM) is a plus

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• Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away
• Life Insurance and Disability
• Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources

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